More on Carly Simon's Multiracial Background

I was surprised to learn recently that Carly Simon's mother was black-Jewish biracial.  Thank you to Lorraine for this email with more information about Carly Simon and her family:

I do believe that Carly considers herself to be multiracial and that is perfectly fine too.  Who knows what her grandmother endured, marrying a Jewish man?  I would really like to find out more information on her grandparents (the Heinemanns).  Anyway, researching families, I found some more info on Carly's Mom.  I included some pics with links.  They have obviously lived well as whites and maybe suffered some of what traditionally Jewish people have faced.  But, because Richard L. Simon was very wealthy, they may not have faced overt racism.  Maybe you can interview Carly or any of her siblings Joanna who is the girlfriend of Walter Cronkite, or musician composer Lucy, or their brother famous photographer Peter. 

Carly made a song about her parents' romance in a video dedicated to them.  Andrea Louise Heinemann is unmistakeably biracial and was very beautiful.  They siblings definitely took after their mother.  Peter has the hairline of his father, but his looks are from their mother.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VfGo6MZEiw  The song "Hello Big Man" was what they said to each other and it was probably love at first sight.  As she was a telephone operator in Simon's company (that probably caused more scandal than the race thing and she probably had mega white women mad at her).  Anyway, he said to her:  "Hello Little Woman" and she said:  "Hello Big Man"  how romantic!

Lucy Simon can be seen here on American Theater Wing:  http://www.americantheatrewing.org/seminars/detail/pop_music_and_the_new_musical_09_05/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Simon

Here is an inerview with Peter Simon talking about the family:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jcVs23PM-Y

His website  http://www.petersimon.com/

Joanna Simon's site:  http://www.foxresidential.com/prof_detail.php?broker=246

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Simon

Carly on wikipedia.  Interesting that they list her an African American long the bottom with the various links/references. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carly_Simon

Carly Simon: It's pretty interesting. It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black. My mother's mother was black. I'm Jewish, black, Cuban, and French. 
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_6_34/ai_n6095018/pg_3